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Insect media [electronic resource] : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Posthumanities ; 11.Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.Description: xxxv, 281 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 595.709 22
LOC classification:
  • Q337.3 .P36 2010
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Contents:
Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.

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